Starting the New Year Off Right...

This New Years Eve we went to Rome to celebrate with our friends and their kids. We had a really good time. It has kinda of become a tradition to go spend the night with Scot and DeAnn and have Eduardo's Pizza, which they have flown in from Chicago. Tim and Scot split the spinach stuffed pizza (YUCK) and Dee and I split the sausage stuffed pizza. YUMMY!

Then we usually play a game, this years choice was FACT or CRAP. Very interesting to say the least. It's a really good game for those of us full of useless information, which would be yours truly. I can store some really strange facts in my head...Scot however, just wants to win, win, win, and has on occasion challenged me, not his best decision sometimes!

The kids were also excited about the new year, they had a yummy cheese pizza all to themselves and tons of chocolate milk! Leah just loves to be around all of us and and here she is with Tim. She is such a loving, delightful child! Look at that smile...I don't have any pictures of the boys, they were in the living room playing the Wii and having a ball.

We had pizza, a good bottle of wine, champagne at midnight and then bed. I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and wish everyone a very Happy 2009!

Christmas Pictures

Here are a few pictcures from Christmas Day...We had a very nice Christmas this year.

A family photo, Mom, me and Brian my brother. Tim and Granny. Oh, and let's not forget Kaite Lee the dog!!
Granny and Tim.

Tim had to do all the cooking this year. It was part of his Christmas gift to me. I had to do nothing, and it was wonderful. Since I had to work, I figured, ok let the man cook!

Then it was time to open gifts...

Even Maverick got into the action, with his wrapping paper skirt...funny cat. We had a nice holiday and are getting ready for the New Year. Hope every one has a great 2009!!

MEWOEY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, now that Christmas is over, it's time to clean up. Tim and I have been busy taking Christmas decorations down today and we are about 90% done. Now all we have to do is look forward to New Years Eve and a new 2009. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and I will post some new pictures as the week progresses. Quite frankly, I'm just to lazy to complete a whole blogger page right now! Hope everyone has a great week and Happy New Year!

FRIENDly Family Christmas...

This weekend was a special weekend with our friends and their kids. Us gals had a girls night and the boys had a boys night. I had to work part of Saturday, but we still had a very good time shopping, opening early Christmas presents and meeting old friends at Jillians for games...

It is always so much fun watching the kids. Brady, Christian and Leah are three very special children with very special parents. We are very fortunate to have such loving friends in our family!!

Scot and DeAnn getting into the Christmas Spirit!!! Christian and Brady are excited by Mario Kart!

WebKinz for Leah! I would have LOVED these things when I was a kid...

Here are some pictures of our weekend leading up to Christmas. I love watching Tim play with the kids...

So just a few more days to go...Hope everyone had finished their Christmas shopping and has a nice Christmas dinner planned! Enjoy and Have A Very Merry Christmas!!

"Christmas is coming,The goose is getting fat,Please to put a penny in an old man's hat.If you haven't got a penny,A half-penny will do,If you haven't got a half-penny,God bless you"!

I have no idea why I remember this poem, but it probably has something to do with the fact that grandma and grandaddy always recited it around this time of year! In fact it was the first thing I though of when I woke up this morning...

So, Christmas is coming and people are getting cranky at the Mall of Georgia. Perhaps if they knew about the above poem, they might pause a second and remember what Christmas is all about.Tim and I went to the mall yesterday to finish up our Christmas shopping. I packed my patients, woolly bully coat and off we went. I really enjoy watching people and yesterday did not fail me. There are all sorts of people out and about, most of them complaining and fussing about something incidental. I felt bad for these people They have obviously lost the feeling of wonderment about the holiday. However, we then walked past the Santa Clause set up and watched hundreds of children with stars in their eyes waiting to tell Santa what they want for Christmas. The adults that were fussing need to take a few minuets to watch and LEARN from the kids.

Anyway, I don't have anything really special to say this week so I though I would just post a few pictures of Christmas past and some of my tortured cats in reindeer antlers. I hope everyone who reads this blog this week will remember to be nice and kind and think about what this Christmas season means to them. Merry

Christmas Everyone!!